This experience is the worst for new/unregistered users. As a registered user you can curate some of your feed despite algorithm being “meh”. Unregistered? Flood of garbage.
One thing I’m wondering about - currently bambu employees pic out featured and collections, maybe dip more into community… Hmmm…
I do too, however I’m on the edge here: on one hand I wouldn’t mind liking/boosting really well designed items that look cool but I have no desire to print due to multiple factors (like for example I’m very hesitant about 24+h prints). On the other hand - once I do print, there are ratings for profiles and downloads+prints need to count for something… Good thing about boosts is that the app reminds you about expiring boost tokens and suggests items you’ve printed.
I couldn’t care less where the designs come from… Ai is just a tool… I draw the line at designs which have never been printed appearing anywhere… I’ve said before that I NEVER print anything which is not listed with a photograph of the printed item.
If Bambu instigated that one simple rule then we could all stop wasting time.
Already said lots of times and requested also. @BambuLab@MakerWorld does not care, from their lack of responses. Or so it seems.
Non printed models have been rising lately. For Makerworld to enforce that, they would have to treat all users the same, without any favouritism. I am also the same, i print what i can see, not what i can’t see. If you look in another topic about “points farming” i have been there lot’s of times showing just those users. One of them started an account a few weeks ago and didn’t post a single printed picture of their models and yet, now, they are rising to 3k downloads and even more in the following days. Makerworld, again, ignores all reports against that account,not only mine but from other people. The platform is shaping to what Makerworld wants it to be. We as users help with reports but we also can’t be alone in that.
Time will say, but more and more accounts are rising and all with the same modus operandi, as i predicted. If one can, then we all can.
AI will soon be everywhere. You remind me of the guys complaining about this new shitty emails back when we used paper regularly…
In the end, quality should decide how successful something is, not how it was made. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not happy about Makerworld getting flooded with poor models and all it consequences. But when I read something like “I want to block AI creators” I foresee you have to block yourself soon.
See, can I call em or what? We’re at stage 2 in my time line. All we need is Hank to show up and priase A.I. and we can lock this thread and start another!
In the end we are indeed in a loop, just like predicted. Evolution will keep going until we will start to go back once again.
That and also AI makes people dumber because they get used to have it all at the tip of their fingers and won’t exercise the brain to do some tasks that otherwise they would. AI is good. Also, AI is bad… There got to be a middle point. But humans don’t know when to stop, they never knew and well… here we are, in this wondurful topic, with some wonderful people…
AI is not your own work, it’s AIs work, and it cannot be set under a standard license either, it’s not something that you can copyright
I’m guessing for you it’s all the same, but for someone that enjoys the act of thinking and creating, and not outsourcing that to a neural engine, it’s not really the same
and i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, i’m not against AI, quite the oposite, but i use it to make time for me to be more creative, I don’t need to buy time to do the laundry, AI can do that for me, i want to use my brain to actually create and not focus on low value added tasks, for which I’m happy that it takes over
AI is stupid - and not the least bit creative. It simply thoroughly mixes its immense training data and generates a result that no longer shows that it ultimately feeds off the creativity of real people. Would you like to know what happens if at some point there is no or insufficient human-generated input available?
New research published in Nature shows that the quality of the model’s output gradually degrades when AI trains on AI-generated data. As subsequent models produce output that is then used as training data for future models, the effect gets worse. [Source]
We are observing (here too) that AI content is crowding out real creativity - which will ultimately lead to the complete uselessness of AI.
I doubt that MakerWorld will do anything about AI models.
I.E. : PrintMon Maker, Make My Lithopane, Make My Desk Organizer, Image to Keychain, Parametric Model Maker, Pixil Puzzle Maker, Make My Vase, Make My Sign, AI Scanner, Relief Scupture Maker, Image to 3d Model, Make My Lantern, etc, etc.
I will admit I haven’t read every post in this thread so if I repeat something someone else said, I apologize in advance.
All the models that are generated by the AI programs provided by MakerWorld should be relegated to the Generative Model area without being posted in the latest makes for the site. I have generated 2 signs using the MakerWorld sign program and it was fun and i published them here but not as exclusives or anything else. I admit I was lazy as I could have done them using OpenSCAD. Right now I am making something for myself again with OpenSCAD, and I have made a few unpublished things as I am new to Bambu and need to figure the best way to do so. I have enjoyed the PrintMon creator and have played games with the generator (take an output image from it and feed it back to the generator) and have actually printed a couple of toys from the generator. Eventually I will publish them but only if it is something truly outstanding. Blender is currently something I am not comfortable working with so for now I will let the AI generate organic items for me. Right now I have used it to generate about 100 items for every one I take to completion
It’s not about the models at all, or at least not everything. It’s about generating an image that you won’t be able to reproduce in 3D and so, the outcome is totally different. It’s also about many profiles having deceiving images. Also about the guidelines that Makerworld is so proud of throwing out once in a while but they don’t enforce it, or at least not to everyone the same.
Those makerworld AI generators are placed in a right category, called Generative Designs and can already be blocked at your will. The problem is outside of the Makerworld AI generators, where they have no control. I remember the time when a model without profile would be populated by makerworld, where they were paying attention to stolen models or copyright. Now you have an Exclusive Program where you must be the keeper and the searcher. You must search the internet for “copies” of your work or you will be punished in Makerworld. I could be here all day but in the end it wont matter because they already shown their stance on this the day that a user used inside contacts as a way to “escape” the guidelines. That was it.
I am not bitter, although it seems like it. I only wanted a platform that worked the same for all people and where people could share their creations and even get rewarded for it.
